Mainstream Go Sightings

[Vesa]

Spotted this in our local supermarket: the cover of the magazine "Foreign Policy" (Finland), featuring a main story of Chinese foreign policies:



I was tempted to buy the magazine but then thought twice

Cheers,
Vesa

[Dusk Eagle]

How did they know I wear a veil on my face before sitting down to play a game of Go?

[LocoRon]

How did they know I wear a veil on my face before sitting down to play a game of Go?

What do you mean, "how did they know"? I thought wearing a veil was common Go etiquette....

[Inkwolf]

Ah the notorious black-veiled Aiel, who always cover their faces before attacking in a game of stones...

[uPWarrior]

Ah the notorious black-veiled Aiel, who always cover their faces before attacking in a game of stones...

Thought the same, but I doubt that that's what the artist was thinking at the time.

[TheBigH]

Ugh. Black is playing his 12th stone, white has only 5 on the board, and it appears they are playing on an 11x11 board (the lines are indistinct). It annoys me that they can't even make the effort to have the game resemble anything that could occur in play.

[EdLee]

It annoys me that they can't even make the effort to have the game resemble...

But they did decide to feature Go. On the cover.

[watchingo]

I'm currently reading a cartoon story called Barefoot Gen. It's a tragic story about a poor boy and his family living in Japan during the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
Early on, there is a scene with some officials playing go. The board is very simply drawn though, (maybe 9x6) with only one stone on one of the images.
There may be more go parts later on as well. I am only on volume 1.

[Bill Spight]

I'm currently reading a cartoon story called Barefoot Gen. It's a tragic story about a poor boy and his family living in Japan during the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
Early on, there is a scene with some officials playing go. The board is very simply drawn though, (maybe 9x6) with only one stone on one of the images.
There may be more go parts later on as well. I am only on volume 1.

Is that the Atom Bomb game?

[watchingo]

Is that the Atom Bomb game?

No it's not. The players are a chairman of the village and his friend. All thats said about it is, "How about another game?" Then after, "That chess game lasted longer than expected." He said "chess" but it was definitely a goban and a go stone. Looking at it again, the stone is not on the board, but being held between one of their fingers.
The story is really good, I can't put it down.

[EdLee]

He said "chess" but it was definitely a goban and a go stone.

This is a bit ambiguous. Could you be more specific:
Are you reading the original Japanese manga in Japanese, or a version translated into English?
Did the character say (a) "chess" (with Rooks and Pawns), or (b) "shogi", or (c) something else ?

In other words, if you are reading an English version of the manga, and the text reads "chess,"
then we don't know whether the original Japanese version deliberately meant "chess" despite
the goban and Go stones (unlikely), or, whether the English translator made a mistake
when converting the original Japanese text from "Go" to "chess" (likely).

[watchingo]

This is a bit ambiguous. Could you be more specific:
Are you reading the original Japanese manga in Japanese, or a version translated into English?
Did the character say (a) "chess" (with Rooks and Pawns), or (b) "shogi", or (c) something else ?

In other words, if you are reading an English version of the manga, and the text reads "chess,"
then we don't know whether the original Japanese version deliberately meant "chess" despite
the goban and Go stones (unlikely), or, whether the English translator made a mistake
when converting the original Japanese text from "Go" to "chess" (likely).

I am reading the English version, and he said the word "chess."
Yeah I have noticed English translators call go "chess" by mistake before, so I am sure that is what happened.

[Inkwolf]

Yeah, if you ever watched An Unfinished Chess Game (AKA The Go Masters) in the DVD release YMI offers, you'll absolutely go nuts hearing them call the game "chess" throughout the movie, and the stones "chessmen." Or rather, reading. (Subtitled)

[Bonobo]

Look at what I found here:


(You can find more versions in http://aaronbasilnelson.com/wp-content/uploads/)

[Inkwolf]

That would be so cool to see! (Though I imagine that the stones in the planter might keep mysteriously disappearing and need to be refilled.)